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  • PDP committee warns against provocative statements

    PDP committee warns against provocative statements

    The Reconciliation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned members against making provocative statements following grievances arising from the party’s convention.

    The committee has also promised to address all grievances.

    Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson gave the assurance in Abuja on Monday after the meeting of the panel.

    Dickson said: “We don’t want a situation where comments that are provocative are made by party members, especially party leaders that will inflame passion, be misunderstood to convene unintended meanings.

    “So, our appeal to all party members is to exercise caution, refrain and above all show respect to one another because at the end we are all members of the same family and same citizens of Nigeria.

    “We want to assure all our members that their concerns and grievances would be looked into by this committee”, he said.

    Dickson called on party members, who left to return saying the party had put its house in order.

    The governor said the committee had already established contacts with some aggrieved leaders, especially chairmanship aspirants and others, who were dissatisfied or had concerns with the convention.

  • PDP committee yet to contact me, says Tambuwal

    Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) reconciliation committee is yet to contact him for possible return to the party.

    The governor spoke with reporters on Sunday at former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido’s home in Bamaina village, Birninkudu Local Government Area after a meeting.

    He said he was in the former governor’s home to condole with him over the death of his daughter.

    Tambuwal said: “I’m sure you are aware that we lost our dear sister few months ago. I was not able to come and condole with our leader and pay my condolence to the family and pray that may her soul rest in perfect peace.”

    The Sokoto governor denied discussing politics with the ex-governor and PDP presidential aspirant during the visit.

    He said: “No political discussion at all.”

    On restructuring, Tambuwal said as the chairman, Northern Governors Forum’s committee on the issue, he would not express his personal opinion on the issue.

    According to him, I’m holding to my opinion because I’m chairing a committee set-up by the Northern Governor Forum on the same issue. So, I don’t want my opinion to be misread or misinterpreted as the opinion or decision of the committee.

     

  • PDP committee affirms Umar as Taraba Ag. governor

    PDP committee affirms Umar as Taraba Ag. governor

    The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Fact-Finding Committee on the health condition of Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba has affirmed Alhaji Garba Umar as the Acting Governor of the state.

    Briefing Journalists after about a two-hour close door meeting, the committee Chairman, Sen. Hope Uzodima, stated that the impasse had been resolved with all stakeholders including Suntai’s wife, Hauwa.

    He said the acting governor should from time-to-time for consultation with Suntai on major political issues in the state, while he (Suntai) recuperates.

    The committee chairman further stressed that the issue was a purely PDP in-house problem which, as a family, could be sorted out amicably.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Suntai returned to the state on August 25, after 10 months of medical treatment abroad, following his involvement in a plane crash in October 2012.

    Uzodima’s committee, which was received at the Jalingo airport by the acting governor and many top government functionaries, visited Suntai briefly in his official residence.

    NAN also reports that two parallel organs of governments were being run in the state before Tuesday’s resolution as three commissioners had complied with the purported dissolution of the State Executive Council.

    The three commissioners had handed over their offices to the permanent secretaries of the ministries while four commissioners did not comply.

     

  • PDP committee visits ailing Taraba governor

    PDP committee visits ailing Taraba governor

    Members of the Peoples Democratic Party Fact-finding Committee on the Taraba State Political Situation paid solidarity visit to Governor Danbaba Suntai in New York, United States, on Saturday.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the committee, led by its Chairman, Sen. Hope Uzodinma, visited the governor at a rehabilitation centre, where he is receiving treatment, following the injury he suffered in last year’s air mishap.

    Uzodinma was accompanied by the Special Adviser to the PDP National Chairman on INEC and Inter-party Affairs, Alhaji Shitu Mohammed, the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, Sen. Abubakar Gada and the Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Habib Habu.

    “We are impressed with what we have seen and we thank God for that. We will take back home what we have seen and we will inform the leadership of the party.

    “We are impressed; we are also happy that the governor is recovering. We will still go back home and relate what we have seen.

    “We will also visit Taraba State. We will meet all stakeholders in Taraba State, we will also inform them of what we have seen and our party as a family will make sure that the party continues to grow from strength to strength,’’ he told NAN in an interview.

    Uzodinma commended President Goodluck Jonathan and the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for setting up the fact-finding committee.

    The consul-general also said the governor was recovering fast.